Publications by authors named "Nicky van der Wielen"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines how gut health markers vary within the same individuals over time, highlighting that this variability is not well understood despite advancements in gut health research.
- A total of ten healthy adults provided faecal samples across three consecutive days, resulting in specific variability percentages for different gut health markers, revealing significant differences in consistency and bacterial counts.
- An improved processing method, involving mill-homogenization of frozen faeces, decreased variability in certain markers without changing their average levels, suggesting that repeated sampling might be necessary for accurate gut health analysis.
The roots of vascular plants are colonised by a multitude of microbes, which play an important role in plant health and stress resilience. Drought stress in particular is devastating for crop yield and causes major shifts in the rhizosphere microbial communities. However, the microbiome associated to the rhizoids (hereafter termed rhizoid-sphere) of the nonvascular bryophytes remains largely unexplored.
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